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Bug 336921

Summary: Identify yourself dialog only necessary if not set
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component: UIAssignee: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: marcel.bruch, robin, stefan.lay
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Alex Blewitt CLA 2011-02-11 07:15:29 EST 
The 'identify yourself' dialog is a neat idea, but it was shown on my existing Git installation when I already had an e-mail and name set up. Although I had an option to dismiss the dialog, it will be seen whenever anyone performs a commit on a fresh Eclispe install for future years as well.

This should only be shown if the 'show this dialog box again' box is not ticked, *and* there is no value set for 'user.name' or 'user.email'

(0.11)
Comment 1 Marcel Bruch CLA 2011-02-15 01:10:50 EST 
in addition, it would be great if Egit would respect local user.name and user.email as specified in .git/config.

When committing changes on an already shared project, Egit 0.11 'identify yourself' dialog asked me for my user name and email but has filled in my global values already instead of using those in .git/config.
Comment 2 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-03-15 18:54:10 EDT 
pushed
- http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,2728
- http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,2729
for review to fix this
Comment 3 Robin Stocker CLA 2013-09-27 12:33:05 EDT 
The fixes have been merged for some time.